2020/08/04

ACLU Director on Digital Activist Joy Buolamwini

“She was the first person to realize that this problem exists, to talk about it, and do academic work around it until the powers that be took notice.”
Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, on MIT computer scientist and activist Joy Buolamwini, whose research helped persuade Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to put a hold on facial recognition technology.
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